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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. How can you recognize that a VP is great, not just good? Get best price tickets here!!!

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Top CISOs in the USA to Follow in 2024

Scytale

By following some of the top CISOs in the USA, you can gain valuable insights into developing a robust cybersecurity strategy. Ryan Kazanciyan : As Chief Information Security Officer, Ryan leads security operations, engineering, and risk & compliance across Wiz’s corporate, development, and cloud production environments.

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

There is a shift towards less capital-intensive startups with recurring revenues, and due diligence is crucial before taking on investors or advisors. The key to success is developing the product and having strong economics and a clear vision, especially during tough times.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

and Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO of MongoDB held a fireside chat at SaaStr Annual. Dev Ittycheria – President and CEO of MongoDB. I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. This was certainly one of them.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week With Rippling and Salesforce — May 31, 2019

SaaStr

Why should engineers also be doing customer support? * Why should your engineers be heavily involved in the customer support hiring process? How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? What are the benefits of this? What do you look for in those hires?

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

It has little to do with the work itself, and more to do with the societal pressure, norms, and bias that exist in 2021. We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. The expectation is that we can “do it all.” Anything less is failure. For lack of better words…f*ck that. Heck, stand at the head of it.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? To date, Peter has raised $8m for InCountry from some of my very favorites including Bloomberg Beta, Felicis, Ray Tonsing @ Caffeinated and CRV just to name a few. What are the considerations? *